Daily Podcast – 2026-09-17

Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, covering everything from massive shifts in GPU programming to the geopolitical implications of AI infrastructure, and even a deep dive into how we should be backing up our personal data. We've got some heavy hitters in the AI space, so grab your coffee, because we are diving into the latest from Hacker News. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:25 Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust 2:05 Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres 4:05 Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard 5:42 Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA 7:10 AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran 8:40 Backups Aren't Simple 10:31 Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep 11:59 How GLM built its own inference infrastructure 13:23 HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? 15:14 Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds 16:40 Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs 18:27 My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it 20:06 Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes 21:48 One year of sponsored Servo development 23:26 Everybody's Lost Their Minds 25:03 Reversing Factorio's RNG 26:17 Outro